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- The Best Haiku With "Start-Up"
- I've always loved haiku. And with my new interest in all things Japan, my interest in haiku has risen correspondingly. (Female sources also whisper from the shadows that poetry helps a man get in touch with his soft side?)The best haiku experiment I've done was for my birthday last year,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- Should billg Stop Bullying?
- In a comment on my post on Bill Gates’ management style, reader Kempton asked:“..do you think has billg got mellow out a little as he aged, got a great wife and partner, and also kids? He still seem quite geeky but I sure hope with age, he got mellow out...
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- The "Rich Get Richer" Effect
- Duncan Watts has a fascinating, brief piece in the NYT Magazine today about the "rich get richer" effect and how cultural mega-hits dont have much to do with many individuals independently liking a given song or book. Rather, the success of a successful book or song and the failure of...
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- Being the First to OWN the Market
- I get a lot of business plans sent by friends and acquaintances asking for my opinion and it almost seems like it is an unwritten rule of the business plan to list "first to market" as a competitive advantage. What a myth! Being first to market usually means that...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Risk and Diversification as an Entrepreneur
- No one is infallible when it comes to business. I learned this lesson pretty early on when I started my first business. With the naivety of a college student, I approached DVA my first company thinking that business was like a mid-term or a final exam, and that success was...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Design Puzzles - Why Do Outdoor Coffee Tables Have Four Legs?
- Prof. Steven Postrel has a good post over at Organization and Markets about why some entrepreneurial opportunities go unsatisfied. His example is why outdoor coffee tables have four legs instead of three, when its "obvious" that three legs would make the table rock less. He concludes with the following design...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Morph of a Nerd CEO â€" How Hard Will You Work?
- Nerds are used to long hours. But the long hours you spent getting a program to work are nothing like the hours you’ll have to put in if you start a company and have employees. If you’re not prepared to work twelve hours at least six days each week...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- 5 Quick Pointers On Startup Hiring
- I’ve been in the startup business for a pretty long time now. One of the things that I’ve found hardest to do is find and recruit exceptionally talented individuals. This is not particularly surprising, I think all businesses (big and small, young and old) have this challenge. ...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Massachusetts Ranked #1: Perhaps Entrepreneurs Can Stay East After All
- A little while I ago, I wrote an article on this blog titled "Go West, Young Entrepreneur! Is The Valley Better For Software Startups?." Now, I’ve come across some new information that causes me to reconsider this point of view. Business Week posted an article recently titled...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- 4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint
- Before we get too deep into this, let me clarify two things. When I say without a "plan," I mean without a formally written business plan – not that you should be clueless about what you want to do. And, when I say startup funding, I’m talking more...
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- You’re The People Whisperer
- Mary’s training a puppy. She’s taking the job very seriously and doing it well. Both of us think that we should have taken as disciplined an approach to managing people in our entrepreneurial days.The toughest thing for an entrepreneur to learn is that most people want to be led....
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- The Myth of One Giant Eureka Moment
- I was talking to a journalist today about entrepreneurship. I told him my theory that the myth of creativity is that it all happens in one, giant "Eureka!" moment.You know the image: The idea comes to mind and you freeze. Its brilliance strikes you. Its going to change the world!...
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- The Role of Evangelist For Web 2.0 Companies
- How do web 2.0 / consumer web app-ish type companies generate buzz for their free product or service online? Online promotions? Email blasts? Pray to be TechCrunched?Ive seen an increasing number of companies do all this and one thing more: hire low-cost "evangelists" to sit at a computer all day...
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Private Spaces to Public Spaces: Coffeehouse > Garage
- "The San Francisco coffeehouse is the new Palo Alto garage," declares Kevin Burton, 30, who runs his Internet startup Tailrank without renting offices. "Its where all the innovation is happening." - San Francisco Chronicle article on "third places" become the new office.Alex Soojung-Kim Pang from the Institute for the Future...
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Business Rules of Thumb Wiki
- Ive launched a new project: Business Rules of Thumb -- its a public wiki to track useful rules of thumb from negotiation to marketing to presentations to PR. Please contribute rules of thumb to the wiki! The password is: "thumb".Some of the content is taken with permission from Seth Godins...
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Book Review: One Person / Multiple Careers
- Marci Alboher has written a great new book that came out yesterday called One Person / Multiple Careers. She sent me an early copy and after reading it I spoke with her on the phone.The premise is this: From lawyer/chefs to police officer/personal trainers to mom/CEOs, more and more people...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Prepare and Be Prepared
- Brad Feld has a great post a week ago titled, Dont Be Casual, in which he talks about a company in his portfolio that did a "casual" presentation to a VC firm, only to realize that the companys idea of casual didnt match the VC firms. In the end,...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Do Boards of Advisors Work?
- I have never seen a board of advisors work after the initial few meetings. Im sure there are cases where they are managed well and it works out, but for the most part, my experience is that any initial engagement and excitement wanes and the value diminishes fairly quickly....
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Revenge of the Liberal Arts Graduates?
- Geoffrey Moore, author of the pathbreaking and essential business book Crossing the Chasm, just blogged about the Davos '07 theme "The Shifting Power Equation." Moore says:The shift from computing to communications also has profound implications for the redistribution of power. As the Internet continues to work its transformation of the...
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Is Your Idea a Business or a Product?
- Many business ideas stem from an “aha” moment when a founder is frustrated with a certain task and thinks of a solution. This leads to some great products and innovations, but doesn’t necessarily lead to great businesses. A business is an organization that sells a product or service, and so...
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
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